The Planes of Fame Air Museum's extremely rare P-51A Mustang. This is the only true P-51A flying today (the only other P-51A flying has a D-model wing and D-model main fuselage). Originally acquired by Planes of Fame founder Ed Maloney in 1953, it had its first post-restoration test flight in 1981. Since 2006 it has been painted in the markings of "Mrs. Virginia", flown by Maj. Robert Petit of the 1st Air Commando Group based in the China-Burma-India Theatre. The horse marking seen on the fuselage is a leftover from a temporary paint scheme ("movie paint") of an RAF color scheme it wore in 2019 for a documentary (https://www.flickr.com/photos/habujet/50900469506).
Like most of the Mustangs included in the MSFS Reno package, it is a typical restored, maintained, and regularly-flown warbird, not a racer. It did however participate in the 2016 Reno Air Races, where it placed second in the Silver Race, with an average speed of nearly 352 MPH.
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